Merry Monday #138 + Simon Says Bling & WCMD prize winner

Today just did not go as expected, and I am much later than I planned posting the winner of my World Card Making Day 2014 Winner Blog Hop prize.

I want to give a huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone that commented on the Blog Hop post and welcome those that have starting following my blog. And now to the prize winner! My Random Number Generator picked post 17, which is Kathy Mc.

Kathy McDecember 4, 2014 at 8:54 AM

Following you also, Jacquie!

Congratulations, Kathy! I will be in touch with you regarding delivery of the Altenew Gift Certificate and prize box.

I can't post without including a card and every year, when I think I'm done with Christmas cards, Stefan will ask me for 2 or 3 or 10 to use at work. I decided to use Merry Monday Challenge #138 and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge to Bling It On to inspire this card since I had a silver glitter paper wreath sitting in my die cut pile.

   

After using gold glitter thread to tie the joy sentiment circle to the wreath, it is adhered to a scalloped vellum circle on then onto an embossed panel.

Before I go today, I have to caution you about leaving half finished craft projects where you husband might feel inspired to do something with them. A long while back I bought the letters to make my own version of the Pottery Barn Noel sign but things didn't go the way I'd hoped and the project was abandoned. The other day I found this waiting for me in the garage.

Not quite what I had envisioned :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

World Card Making Day 2014 Winners Blog Hop

Welcome to the World Card Making Day 2014 Winner Blog Hop!

If you are following the Hop from the beginning, you should have arrived here from Christa Laszczkowski's blog. If you get lost along the way, head back to Paper Craft Connections for all the links or use the list at the bottom of this post.

Photo Collage Credit to Virginia Lu

   

As thrilled as we all were to find ourselves winners in the contest, we were equally saddened at the announcement Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking magazine would stop publishing with the currently available Jan/Feb issue. I'd like to give a big THANK YOU to Holly Anderson for giving us the space in the Paper Craft Connections blog and to Virginia Lu for all your work in gathering the links and behind the scenes organization for this Hop.

This Blog Hop gives us an opportunity to share the winning cards, including mine in the Hello/Thinking of You category. Fortunately, I took a couple of quick photographs before sending this card off to Utah.

A sweet sentiment from Altenew's Figure Effects stamp set is curved to follow the bottom edge of the    die cut panel created with Seattle Skyline and Memory Box Small Word Pop dies.

I'm having a little celebration giveaway to keep the party going! Because the sentiment on my winning card is from Altenew, I am including a $20 Gift Certificate to their online store along with a box filled with a few things from the amazing Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking WCMD Winner prize and other assorted bits and pieces that I can squeeze in :)

Just leave a comment by December 10th for an opportunity to win. If you are a follower, or become one this week, leave a quick second comment for another chance in the random draw.

Your next stop on the Hop is to Wendi Lau!

Jamie Greene

Simone Naoum

Kristie Larsen 

Donna Bowman 

Maureen Wong

Mandy LaCroix

Heather Hoffman

Piali Biswas 

Christa Laszczkowski

you are here →  Jacquie Southas    

Wendi Lau 

Tosha DelJanovan

Isha Gupta 

Jill Dewey Hawkins 

Virginia Lu  

The closing of Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking magazine will leave a big void in the card making world as they have been a major source of inspiration, challenges, trends and techniques for us all. I wish everyone involved with this publication the best of luck as they move onto new adventures.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

MIM#187: Partial Die Cuts + ATCAS#51: Tag and WCMD 2014 Winner

Eeek, did you read the title of this post!?!

Yes, I am a Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking magazine World Card Making Day 2014 Contest winner in the Hello/Thinking of You category!!!!! Please excuse my use of exclamation marks, but I am pretty darn excited and have had to sit on this bit of great news for almost a week.

You can see the announcement here, but have to wait until the April 2015 issue of the magazine to see the card.

I am going to calm myself down long enough to tell you about these tags I made and then I think I need to head to the gym and burn off a little of this excitment.

Melissa Phillips has a terrific video tutorial over at Capture the Moment, challenging us to use partial die cutting on a holiday project for Make It Monday #187. You will never guess what die I decided to use :)

Yes, Rustic Wreath is still making me very happy, so I created a trio of kraft tags with pieces of the wreath die cuts, sentiments from the stamp set, pearls and my other latest obssession, silk ribbon.

Last year I gave my sister a set of holiday tags for her birthday and she said they were too nice to use. As much as that feedback made me really happy, I want her to use them so I can make more for her.

The tags are clean and simple to echo my sister's clean and elegant sense of style.

Have I mentioned my obssession with silk ribbon right now? I can't get enough of it.

I am also linking these tags to Addicted to CAS #51: Tag. This is my first time joining in on their challenge, but I'm sure it won't be the last.

I want to give a plug for my friend Lori McCausland, who is the source of my silk ribbon. Lori has been in the papercrafting world for a long time, teaching, running a boutique and hosting retreats in Southern California. 

Her latest venture is Scrapping With a Twist and she is teaching a Mixed Media class in Oceanside on December 6th. Originally sold out, she has negotiated with the venue for a bigger room and has a few spots left so, if anyone wants to join us and get messy, check out her Facebook page here.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie